AllieV
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I'll apologize ahead of time if I'm saying something obvious that you already know, but it occurred to me that a lot of people on here might be much younger than me or may not have gone to Disney in the early early days.I'm curious, what would your idea of an E ticket in the FLE be, because I honestly can't think of one, although I may be corrupted by the fact that I think of an E ticket as a thrill ride, which was dis-proven in a PP.
In the 70s, you bought ticket books from the booth like a fair. Their look reminded me of Monopoly money. (the next part I'm making up examples because I can't remember the exact combo or price) Each book cost $5 and had colored/lettered tickets in it. There were 5 pink A tickets for A-coded rides (such as dumbo, Mr Toad), 4 blue B-tickets (Peter pan?), 3 green D-tickets (I think Pirates was classified as needing one D ticket to ride), etc, etc, and 2 white E-tickets (Space Mountain required one white E-ticket to ride). My older sister would trade me all her pinks for all my whites so I could ride dumbo and she could ride space mountain. You had to buy an entire ticket book. Older kids would go around trading their As for Es with little kids in the park.
From what I remember, it was color coded before it was lettered. The letters came later. Then for a brief period, you got string bracelets instead of ticket books and you'd buy colored metal "charms" that clipped on. Those colors corresponded to what the ticket colors were. The pink charm was cheap, the green a little more, etc. Then you could ride all you wanted on those rides that corresponded to the colors on your bracelet.
At some point in the early 80s, it went to a one-price entry (no more just walking around the park for free) which started around $20 I think.
Anyway . . . if you want to know which rides in the MK are considered e-ticket, you'd have to find someone old enough to remember how they were coded back then. I only remember a few.
Again, sorry if this wasn't what you were looking for.